I hope next February, you will be seeing at least a few more tunnels and a lot more harvests! Alas, for this winter, the only thing we are harvesting daily is eggs. We have harvested a total of 61 eggs this January from our 18 hens. This is the first year we have tried to keep up with a tally. I think it will be so neat to see how those numbers go up each month as the daylight hours lengthen 🙂

Even though we are not harvesting daily, we are still eating from our garden stores.

Produce harvested in 2014 that we are still using:

blueberries

strawberries (harvested from a Upick farm in May of 2014)

green beans

sweet potatoes

sunflowers (still giving them to the chickens little by little)

green peppers

pumpkin

I am very pleased with the fact that we still have berries frozen. Last winter, I had used up all of our strawberries and blueberries by January. As it is, I have one more gallon bag of frozen strawberries and 5-6 more gallon bags of blueberries. We use these in smoothies, in our oatmeal, but mainly, we defrost them & process them with flaxseed to make jelly for our PB&J sandwiches.

I am hoping the sweet potatoes will last us until June of this year (when the garden potatoes start coming in) at least. I only have one more gallon bag of frozen green beans. I am planning on growing more this year. We don’t eat green peppers or pumpkin very much so that is why we are still swimming in them.

Produce harvested in 2014 that we have used up:

tomatoes (we still have some frozen from 2013 though so we’re not buying any)

I think we’ll plan on eating (rather than preserving) all of our raspberries, strawberries, greens, and zucchini fresh. I don’t think we could grow enough to preserve because we eat these up so quickly! Maybe one day (for the fruit) but definitely not this year!

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